A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one of the most popular tools in the cybercriminal arsenal. The motives behind such attacks can vary – from cyber-hooliganism to extortion. There have been cases where criminal groups have threatened their victims with a DDoS attack unless the latter paid 5 bitcoins (more than $5,000). Often, a DDoS attack is used to distract IT staff while another cybercrime such as data theft or malware injection is carried out.

The Mirai botnet, which is made up of IoT devices and which was involved in DDoS attacks whose scale broke all possible records, causing denial of service across an entire region, has been extensively covered by the mass media. Given that the botnet’s source code has been made publicly available and that the Internet of Things trend is on the rise, no decline in IoT botnet activity should be expected in the near future.

Almost two years I’ve been focused on cybersecurity of smart medicine. The result was collected in 3 reports:
1. Introduction in the topic: https://t.co/RJDxzpyBHY
2. Threat landscape: https://t.co/mxLEXX3CDg
3. Recommendations and mitigation strategy: https://t.co/v7S3kwmufD